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'''Titan Sports, Inc. v. Turner Broadcasting Systems, Inc., 981 F. Supp. 65 (D. Conn. 1997)''' was a United States District Court for the District of Connecticut copyright infringment case brought by Titan Sports, Inc, the parent company of the World Wrestling Federation against Turner Broadcasting Systems, parent company of World Championship Wrestling. The claim alleged that WCW committed copyright infringement by allowing Scott Hall and Kevin Nash to play their WWF characters of Razor Ramon and Diesel respectively on WCW programming. The case was eventually settled out of court in 2000 with the WWF being given first refusal on the purchase of WCW.

Background
The World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling were competing professional wrestling organisations, engaged in what was known as the Monday Night War. In 1996, Hall moved to WCW and appeared on their programming under his own name but playing the Razor Ramon character. Kevin Nash would join him a few weeks later also under his own name and the two would be referred to as The Outsiders. The two were portrayed in storyline as having been sent from the WWF to invade WCW and take over. The WWF sued over this, claiming copyright infringement and requested an injunction to prevent Hall and Nash appearing on TV. The case was scheduled to be heard shortly before WCW's Bash at the Beach pay-per-view. Accordingly, WCW reduced the mentions of any implications that Hall and Nash were sent by the WWF and both of them openly denied it when asked by Eric Bischoff if they worked for the WWF.

Case
TBS originally offered to co-promote inter-promotional matches with the WWF but this was declined. WCW's lawyers filed a motion to dimiss with the court. The WWF's lawyers responded by laying out the nature of professional wrestling and also added the statement: "Plaintiff alleges that WWF programming combines character-driven story lines with skillful wrestling while WCW has no reputation for creativity.".

Settlement and aftermath
In 2000, the WWF and WCW agreed an out of court settlement.